Articles
Career/Professional Development, Change Management, Logistics, Planning, Design, and Construction, Strategic Planning, Leadership
Developing a Master of Health Administration with a Concentration in Medical Logistics
A detailed example of a new Master of Health Administration (MHA) program with a medical logistics concentration.
FAHRMM, Data, Analytics & Research, Inventory Management, Distribution, Technology, Materials Management Information System (MMIS), Cost Management, Change Management
Using Business Analytics to Drive Efficiencies – A Rural Hospital’s Approach
Healthcare expenses continue to rise and yet hospitals are realizing consistently shrinking margins. Healthcare supply costs are typically the second largest expense to a hospital and must be managed in a manner that ensures providers have access to quality products but also with an emphasis on cost awareness and expense reduction strategies. Healthcare supply chains must leverage their data in order to make better business decisions to reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies through the use of business analytics.
Supply chain management, FAHRMM
The Transformative Power of Supply Chain Management as a Shared Service: Building a Partnership with Nutrition and Food Services
Tremendous value can be achieved by investing Supply Chain Management (SCM) resources into shared services where optimizing the supply chain is not normally a top priority. This paper will discuss an example where SCM partnered with the Nutrition and Food Services (NFS) department within a medical center.
Mergers & Acquisitions, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, FAHRMM
Supply Chain Integration of Merged and Acquired Entities
This paper shares the experience of a true and complete integration of supply chain in a mid-sized IDN under an accelerated timeline. The study is structured to provide a basic framework for integration that can be used as a guide and customized to meet the specific needs of any system.
Author: Richard Killeen
Logistics, FAHRMM
Achieving Excellence in Health Care Supply Chain Logistics
This paper will focus on three areas that are thought to be key components for a strong logistics program. Those are improving visibility, enhancing delivery options, and actionable analytics.
Author: Nicole A. Mazzei-Williams
Leveraging Technology, FAHRMM
Concord Hospital Supply Chain Management’s Journey to ISO 9001 Certification
This paper will share Concord Hospital’s journey to ISO 9001 certification, define the quality management system (QMS), the six key policies of the QMS and outline the key components of each of those policies as they relate to supply chain.
Author: Jodi Panzino, MBA, PMP, CMRP, Director, Supply Chain Management, Concord Hospital.
AHRMM, Leveraging Technology, FAHRMM
Implementing RFID in the Medical Device Supply Chain: The Journey at BJC HealthCare
The lack of end-to-end supply chain visibility in the medical device channel contributes to an estimated five billion dollars ($5B) of inventory waste for the U.S. health system today. (PNC Healthcare and GHX, 2011) RFID is a key technology that is enabling health systems, distributors and manufactures to partner together to remove this waste. Successful implementation of RFID in a healthcare delivery organization takes careful planning, execution, and change management agility.
AHRMM, FAHRMM
Supply Chain: Collaborating with Clinicians to Support Safe Patient Care
Today hospitals and health care organizations are looking to health care supply chain professionals to help support patient care activities. No longer is the supply chain department and its staff relegated to a purely operational position of providing inventory and stocking. The supply chain now has a voice at the table with representation on committees and working quality improvement projects. With collaboration, there is a major fiscal, administrative, and operational role to play.
Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Medical Device Technology, FAHRMM
Preparing Supply Chain to Meet Meaningful Use
By Susan Morris, FAHRMM, AHRMM
This paper will define the regulation and explore how a supply chain department can support their organization in meeting this aspect of the regulations. Understanding the alphabet soup of acronyms that is Unique Device Identifier (UDI), their meaning, how to understand and read the standardized labeling are crucial first steps. Organizations should able to identify what defines an implant.
Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Cost Management, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Value Analysis, FAHRMM
Grady Health System's Transformation from Traditional Value Analysis to Value Based Product Selection
By Lora L. Johnson, FAHRMM, AHRMM
This case study provides a review of Grady Health System’s transformation from traditional Value Analysis Joint Product Review Team structure to Value Based Selection Committees which promote shared governance including system wide physicians and executives focusing on full integration of cost, quality, outcomes analysis to ensure selection of products offering the greatest overall value for cost reduction and improvement of outcomes.